Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recall scenes of happy parties of youths who have long since become seated in the chairs of the mighty. Here was the scene of the boxing matches so famous in Teddy Roosevelt's time. Often did the little dice click on the floors in some remote, but now dusty corner of the room. Foamy beer trickled down the throats and the room rang with joyous song. This was "the busiest room within the walls of the busiest building in the East" as "Mem" was often termed in days gone by. Today, three men enter the portal. One is elderly, white...
Near the end of the long underground corridor, the sight of a gray naval gun can be discerned in the dim, half-light. Here in one corner is a deep sea bomb. A man is painting a periscope from a submarine in another part of the room. The Naval Science Department has asked for the use of Memorial Hall as its base, but they have been granted only a section in one of the remote parts of the basement. Once again the martial beat is in the heart...
...entrance to the subway now concealed by Foster's Restaurant. Before the rotunda was built, plans were made to have three exits or entrances, one next to Lehman Hall, the only one of the three now in use; one on the site of the tobacco shop on the corner adjoining the Harvard Cooperative Society Building; and one where Foster's Restaurant now stands, and these last two passageways were constructed and are now ready to use. However, the report of the committee has stated nothing concerning the betterment of parking conditions at the present time
...invented a new kind of vaccine (macerated insects which carry the virus of disease) and tried it out first on himself; Dr. Carl Voegtlin, pharmacologist, who has accumulated so many facts about the chemistry of cell growth that last week he dared to hint that just around the biological corner lie chemical cures for cancers...
...broad acres. So lay Argos the hound, all shivering with dog-ticks. Yet the instant Odysseus approached, the beast knew him. He thumped his tail and drooped his ears forward, but lacked power to drag himself ever so little towards his master. However Odysseus saw him out of the corner of his eye and brushed away a tear. . . . He plunged into the house, going straight along the hall amidst the suitors; but Argos the dog went down into the blackness of death, that moment he saw Odysseus again after 20 years...